The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-10-21

The Sunday school workers of Cape May
county Will meet in convention at Tuckahoe
ON the 18th and 18th instant.
The annual Sabbath school Association for
Cumberland county will meet at Deerfeld
on Tuesday, November lst.
The natural oyster beds in Delaware Bay are
said 10 cover an area of 1900 acres. They have
been worked so hard as to be almost ruined.
While cunning on Tuesday afternoon Frank
~fIolton, a Young man living near Fairton, had
his left hand badly lacerated by the bursting
of his gun.
The Prohibition League of Cape May county
has inaugurated a school district meeting
cam aign, which began ON Saturday night at
Fishing Creek.
Lewis W. Hildreth, of the Cape May Life
Saving Station, has been instrumental in saw
ing sixty-three persons from drowning during
his youthful career.
G.. q. Green, the. Woodbury. medicine man,
purchased Il tract of land last week in the
interest of the Pennington Seminary, ofwhieh
institution he is a graduate.
a call has been issued for a meeting to be
held in the Camden Court House on the 18th
instant to organize a county society for the
protection of children from cruelty.
Considerable Indignation exists in Wood
bury at the Property Committee of the Board
bl L IttllOitielS q utN ing ulSttSAIutd II II
structions of the Board by cutting down sew
eral large linden trees that stood in front of
the court house.
The Maurice River division of the W est Jer-
sey Railroad Company is nearly completed.
The wharf on Maurice River has been finished,
and all the track laid but four miles. Ship
ment of oysters over the new route will begin
on the 25th instant.
The Cape May Driving PARK Company has
its mile track nearly graded, and 100 men at
work upon the grounds. \ substantial eight
foot-high fence is being constructed and lum-
Der for the grand stand and other buildings
has been purchased.
The farm house. barn and other outbuild-
ings of John kerns, near Woodbury., were de-
stroyed by fire last sunday afternoon. The
horses were rescued but The grain, hay, straw,
corn and farming implements We're destroyed.
The fire originated in the barn. The loss is
placed ut $4,000.
a petition of FIVE hundred names of residents
of Haddonfield and vicinity vas presented to
the court on Monday last against the relicens-
ing of Robert Bates's hotel, at Batesville, just
outside of Haddonfield, and the case was ad-
iourned until next week, when witnesses will
be heard ON both sides.
The Avenue Hotel, No. 6 North Delaware
avenue, and lot, Philadelphia, has been sold
by George Pfeifer, and others, to Mahlon W.
Newton, proprietor of Newton's Hotel, Wood
bury, who assumed possession on Monday.
Tho consideration was $4,000. The property
is mortgaged for sIs, 900.
Since the first of the year l$f new buildings
have been erected in yineland. besides alarge
brick school house and two new factories.
Superintendent Dayton, of the West Jersey
Railroad. says that the railroad business in
Vineland is improving faster than at any
other place on the system.
The Camden Board of Freeholders has grant
ed Dr. E..P. Townsend, of that city, Reporter
for the state Medical Society, permission to
examine the eyes of all the school children,
the object being to ascertain if possible, the
origin OF the increasing deficiency in the
visual powers of the young.
A quarrel occurred at Glassboro on Thurs
day afternoon between John Rossi and Au-
gustus Wrinkle, glassblowers, and in the even
ing Eossi laid in ambush for Wrinkle, striking
him ON the head with a piece of iron. He in
hicted dangerous injuries. The assailant has
been committed 10 jail by a local Justice.
Camden city Council has removed most of
the voting places in that city from saloons,
where tor years they had been located, to
places less Objectionable, so that now out OF
twenty-three polling places only five are in
saloons. and this because there is no other
suitable place in the neighborhood.